Fire Protection Engineer

Summary

The Facilities Branch of the Finance and Facilities Division provides a range of facilities management and real estate support logistic services engineering and design construction planning and management across multiple sections. These sections include the National Capital Region and Field Operations Support Sections in the Washington DC area; Real Property Management Section in Quantico VA (FBI Academy); and Redstone Facilities Services Section in Huntsville AL (FBI Redstone campus).

Duties

• Serves as senior technical authority for fire protection engineering aspects of the planning design construction and alteration of FBI facilities. Provides guidance and oversight for the planning budgetary and operational aspects of same.
• Conducts technical design reviews (design/shop drawings and specifications) of FBI facilities (owned or leased) to ensure that FBI workplaces properly meet Federal and local building and fire codes (i.e. International Building Code International Fire Codes National Fire Protection Administration (NFPA) codes and standards GSA regulations.).
• Applies fire codes and standards requirements and sound assessment practices to detect fire hazards (i.e. existing conditions and practices) in FBI facilities.
• Serves as a fire protection inspector conducting periodic inspections and reviews of FBI facilities for regulatory compliance (e.g. firing ranges warehouses office buildings laboratories aircraft repair shops automobile repair shops hazardous waste storage/holding areas fuel tanks and fueling stations etc.).
• Assists FBI facility management in carrying out their fire protection and fire prevention requirements by providing clear and concise technical guidance for eliminating or minimizing fire hazards found. Conducts fire protection testing for fire protection components.
• Serve as a member of source selection evaluation board (SSEB) as the fire protection engineering expert in the evaluation selection and negotiation of architectural and engineering services.
• Must be able to travel to project sites existing facilities and to other sites for organizational purposes within and outside of the unit and for training.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Must be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
• Some travel may be required.
• ALL applicants must verify completion of the basic education requirement by submitting a copy of college transcripts by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work in the FBI Headquarters office is sedentary. However duties of the incumbent may require extensive periods of time away from the office conducting fire inspections and reviews and fire investigations and fire safety training classes. The performance of fire inspections and reviews and fire investigations requires regular and recurring physical exertion such as walking bending climbing crouching reaching and lifting or similar movements.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work involves exposures to a variety of machinery and equipment toxic fumes dusts hazardous materials body fluids high noise levels and temperature extremes. Personal protective equipment and clothing may be required.

Qualifications

GS-14: Applicant must possess at least one (1) year of SE equivalent to the GS-13 grade level. SE is defined as follows:

• Experience in engineering principles and practices directly related to fire suppression methods fire protection equipment (i.e. fire detection and alarm systems sprinkler systems and other fire extinguishing systems etc.) fire protection features (i.e. interior finishes fire-rated construction smoke control etc.) and administrative work relating to fire protection and fire prevention programs.
• Experience in correctly interpreting building and fire code requirements.
• Experience in engineering principles and skills in interpreting engineering drawings and specifications sufficient to identify potential fire code violations (e.g. insufficient means of egress inadequate fire-rated construction etc.) in proposed activity sites.

Education

Positive Education Requirement
This position has a specific education requirement; all applicants must verify completion of this basic educational requirement by submitting a copy of their college transcripts by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics such as optics heat transfer soil mechanics or electronics.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience - college-level education training and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering and (2) a good understanding both theoretical and practical of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI) Engineer in Training (EIT)1 or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State the District of Columbia Guam or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g. State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example an applicant who attains registration through a State Boards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States the District of Columbia Guam and Puerto Rico.

3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors degree in an appropriate scientific field e.g. engineering technology physics chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology or geology may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience e.g. in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements provided you can show foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.

Additional information

The FBI is in the Executive Branch of the federal government. It is one of the components of the Department of Justice (DOJ). The FBI is the principle investigative arm of the DOJ. All FBI positions are in the excepted service.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Required Experience:

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